12 Mar
2010
12 Mar
'10
8:38 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:54:15AM -0800, Rogan Creswick wrote:
(c) fix the unpacked version, and increment the version number by adding a new level of detail (so, 3.1.0 becomes 3.1.0.1). This version number never leaves my system -- it only exists to keep my cabal/ghc-pkg consistent!
A decent approach, except if the library in question is a core package to the compiler or a library that those packages depend on. I suffered some vast destruction doing the above to the Win32 package. Apparently packages like directory depends on this, breaking GHC irrecoverably if you try to propagate fixes. I managed to limp along for a bit with constraints, but ended up wiping the whole install and installing a clean one.